Library+Lessons

CRSs and LMSs contributing to this page: Youssef, Filz, Wolfe, Ashby, Troia, Marshall, Montgomery, Louk, Phillips, Kosic, Norene
 * __High Impact Library Lessons:__**

Question for students: Would it be more valuable to use a wiki for a historical figure (George Washington) vs living person (BarackObama)? http://www.barackobama.com/index.php For current events we could use Wikis: Who won the 2008 Masters Golf Tournament? http://www.masters.org/en_US/index.html

Choosing appropriate reference materials-give students questions related to core curriculum, they then have to chose which resource to use given a choice of dictionary, encyclopedia, almanac, thesaurus, atlas. Students then have to locate the answer to question based on their decision.

Anything with technology is so exciting and wikis, blogs, etc gives the students an authentic authoring experience. Recently did Explorer Raps with third grade. They researched an explorer and wrote a rap song. The song had to have a refrain that included their essential fact. Using Audacity we recorded our raps with SoundzAbound hip hop cuts. We posted them as podcasts (mp3) files on the school web site. They were so excited and walk around singing their raps and they have been bragging that they have downloaded all the class raps unto their iPods. Next year the teachers want to add raps for a different topic in 3rd grade and use the best of the raps written this year with their class. Check them out at [|Explorer Raps]